I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Dec 2010
Interview
Had 3 phone screenings,
process took some time due to my personal activities and business, everyone from amazon was quite nice and helpful, there was no problem to reschedule date/time with HR
questions were challenging but expectable, you need to know a lot from various areas like
java
networking
databases
algorithms
oo design
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
what is TCP/IP?
differences between TCP UDP?
describe TCP IP model.
You have dictionary. How would you design function/system that should return true/false for check if a word is in a database? How would you scale your solution if word db does not fit in memory/disk? How would you scale it to really big db of words that should be located on n computers?
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney)
Interview
I can't comment much. I submitted an application for the software engineer position, and not even a minute later, I received an auto rejection email from Amazon (never received an online assessment).
2 behavioral 2 coding not very difficult. Behavioral is tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role and biggest accomplishment. The process is exactly the guideline they posted for interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role
It was a 2-3 round process, depending on how your interview went, with increasingly hard DSA questions followed by some HR and behavioural questions. First round was mostly easy and medium leetcode, followed by medium and hard questions in the second round and above on more complex topics.
